Next Generation of Consoles are starting to be developed. What does it mean?

Develop an online magazine has a few sources which both say that both the next generation Playstation and the next generation Xbox are going to come out before 2014, more than likely during the Holiday season of 2013. So what does that mean for consoles, recently Battlefield 3 has taken advantage of extra space on Blu Rays for better graphics and hi-def graphics texture pack for the Xbox. So graphics are still improving on Consoles but are they going to try and rival the PC?

Currently a console runs Battlefield 3 at the lowest possible setting a computer could run at. That means alot of the great graphics that you can partake on the PC you cannot with the console. That’s understandable in that you can buy a pretty good gaming PC for an average of around 900-1000, a console however is 200-300 and is around 6 years old. The technology for a console is worse than a PC and really it’s astonishing consoles have lasted this long and still have pretty decent graphics. But what can they do cheap and that’s comparable to a medium to high settings PC? One question to be answered.

Another limitation is player size on online matches, with Battlefield 3 the player limit is 24 players because the graphics with more people would cause even more system strain and wouldn’t make the experience very good. So obviously system upgrades could do but on the PS3 it can handle more because their system specs are much better, That’s why they had a game that handled 256 players called MAG. But still consoles can use better software which will help with graphics as well.

So the question is honestly what can they do outside of the obvious things. Anything you would like to add? Leaving a comment.